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doubt and thought. If he thinks, then he exists: at least, his mind exists, since what he knows of his body is dependent, again, o...

This is found in Descartes work Meditations and is referred to as substance dualism, which is also known as Cartesian interactioni...

at least, Hume is positing that reason does not have a very important role to play in life, thus, reason, to Hume, would be defini...

They are, instead, robot-like in that they do what they are told and do not question the validity of the teachings. Instead, peopl...

they touched, saw, tasted and felt, was actually constructed from a very sophisticated computer program. The people of this future...

"by posing the question in terms of relation between thinking subject, deity, and external world, Descartes made a purely epistemo...

occurred. One of the only things that one can find to argue about Locke is that he eventually becomes as inflexible as the rest o...

acknowledging it as the source from which the mind receives sensory information. However, Kant argued that the mind cannot know th...

Malcolm instead contends that if one is thinking, making decisions and so forth, he or she is obviously awake. Malcolm takes on ...

unchanging primary principles constitute the basis of all knowledge, and that knowledge of a thing is required in order to conduct...

this is a ludicrous statement because if the sun did not rise, there would be no life as human beings need the sun in order for th...

we note that it "covers what we can know by Gods special revelation to us (which comes through the Bible and Christian Tradition)....

the dreaming argument is simply one concept that emanates from Descartes Meditations, but it has numerous theoretical implications...

he (and humans in general) is(are) a complete entity, a "cogito" or "thinking thing" (as he clarifies in step 1), that entity is c...

always need. Would you not do the same? If you and your child were going to be killed tomorrow, would you not give him something...

In six pages the philosophical and mathematical theories of Rene Descartes are discussed. Four sources are cited in the bibliogra...

conception of what is perceived. Some ideas appear to be innate, while others appear to originate elsewhere and come to the mind i...

do not assert any observation sentences (Yancy, 1995). And in fact, science and philosophy truly have a lot in common. Both scient...

or observation. For example we can only argue that the mans eyes are blue by looking at his eyes. Here we have a statement that ne...

Power is behind all that we perceive, then the Higher Power would be a deceitful one. Descartes arrives at this conclusion becaus...

that any passage outside our sensitive impressions was not possible and as such "there is no metaphysics: we know nothing of God, ...

upon life are not likely to be duplicated in the near future. Indeed, the praise for such progression during these two periods ca...

true of actions as well as other events, not in order to argue that determinism is compatible with actions being freely performed ...

until midmorning began as a result of his ill health (Gaukroger, 1997). The education he received here, which lasted until 1612 se...

at those responsible for the terrorist attacks on September 11, 2001. In other words, education is supposed to take a neutral appr...

Therefore, realities for these individuals would logically be at a variance. Francis Bacon, considered the father of modern scie...

a "relentless critic of metaphysics and religion" (David Hume, 2002). Hume argued that "our purely philosophical conceptions of G...

story has on an impressionable young mind. What did Isaac think and feel at the time? What must he have thought when he was bound ...

there is a universal perception of God, it is not proof that he does exist. Perhaps the most important part of Descartess argument...

thus in doubting, he is thinking, and it must be true that he exists" (Anonymous Topic 2 - "Cogito, ergo sum", 2002; cogito.html)....